What can you say after all that? The grand final draws to a close and I can honestly say I've loved watching every single match of this tournament.

On the 22nd of November, Valorant's YouTube channel dropped their music video for "Die For You ft. Grabbitz" and just 2 days later posted their preview of the Champions skin and from that moment, I knew I was invested in this. The music video is insane! The animations are beautiful and tells an incredible story in a very interpretive way and the song itself is an absolute tune. I love it. As for the skins, yeah, they were expensive but its a F2P game and it's always nice to support content creators, especially when the content looks like the Karambit Knife and Vandal. Also to help out the tournament winnings for the participants to show appreciation of their talents.

The stage set up was pretty clean, it looked like an intense environment where you can sense something big is taking place. The multimedia screen on the floor that usually shows a pretty pattern which is used for maps and stuff was awesome. The lighting and special effects were impressively beautiful. Didn't get fed up of seeing it at all!

The commentary and analysis team are not just informative and entertaining, they have some serious chemistry. They're witty, funny, smart and seldom make a mistake when they're throwing out 10 words a second keeping up with the action on screen.

The tournament matches have been absolutely crazy! The controversial match between Acend and Keyd Stars followed by the even crazier rematch of round 3 where Keyd Stars gave it their all and came pretty close to winning even with their disadvantage. X10 Crit overcoming all the odds and making it so deep into the competition as huge underdogs. Kru taking out the potential favourites Sentinels in an excruciatingly close game. THAT Gambit vs Kru semi's! There's just so many matches to name that were so unique and incredible! All of the players and coaches and staff on the teams who participated in the competition can leave with their heads held high because they truly outplayed everyone's expectations.

Then, today, to kick off the Grand Final with live music by PVRIS and Rezz followed by Grabbitz doing a remix of the "Die For You" (which is an absolute tune by the way) but not just that, a remix featuring the collaborator of the Spectrum Skins, Zedd. That got us all so hyped for the grand final! The stage they performed on looks crazy good too! Also, the easter eggs during the performances were pretty good.

A few great little team interviews and a few little hype montages to lead us into the Grand Final AND WHAT A FINAL! It was an absolute joy to watch, edge of the seat stuff, how ever, I will refrain from talking too much about it to try to be mindful of heavy spoilers.) But a MASSIVE congratulations to "The Valorant Champions 2021!"

AND! AND! Not a single person went AFK! Unbelievable.

TLDR; Thank you to everyone, EVERYONE who worked hard to bring us the Valorant Champions Tournament last 2021. You're all absolutely incredible people. You did good. GGWP.

(edit: spelling and grammar.)